Melanie Griffith

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q176455: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Body Double, which Star 80 with Julie Klausner credits them on.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Star 80 (1983); Miami Vice (1984). Count them as actor (9 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Lenny (1974): 1 line

  1. craft (structure) · through Star 80 (1983), which they were tied to as Fosse's first choice for Stratton: Lenny ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read). Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice.
    “This movie, you have the interview, this sort of superstructure that he loves so much”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:32:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

MTV: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Miami Vice (1984), which they were tied to as married to Don Johnson (twice): MTV ⇒ Miami Vice (the host's read). The show began as the legendary 'MTV cops' pitch from an NBC executive.
    “he wrote a brainstorming memo that read MTV cops.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:13:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Sweet Charity (1969): 1 line

  1. unmapped (technique) · through Star 80 (1983), which they were tied to as Fosse's first choice for Stratton: Sweet Charity ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read). Fosse's choreographic insert/isolation technique reappears in Star 80, applied to ugly material.
    “There's even the, I mean, the whole fossy isolation of the body parts thing, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:33:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

ER (1994): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Miami Vice (1984), which they were tied to as married to Don Johnson (twice): Miami Vice ⇒ ER (the host's read). Miami Vice's influence made TV look like Mann movies; ER's steadicam is where that finishes.
    “An ER, you've got steady cam shots and that's when it's really done and dusted.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:07:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (12) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Melanie Griffith → Pacific Heights. Speakers call Pacific Heights near her peak; Bill likes it.
    “Although, if you look at our IMDb, this is probably the peak in Pacific Heights.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:20:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Melanie Griffith → Night Moves. Griffith appears nude as a young teenager in Night Moves with Gene Hackman.
    “she was in night moves with Gene Hackman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:21:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Melanie Griffith → The Drowning Pool. Griffith plays a 15-year-old seductress opposite Paul Newman.
    “I saw a drowning pool recently for the 1st time with Paul Newman, where she's like a 15 year old seductress.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:22:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Melanie Griffith → One on One. Griffith plays a hitchhiker who steals from Robbie Benson.
    “She's also, she plays a hitchhiker in the Robbie Benson basketball classic one-on-one movie I've seen over a 100 times.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:22:38 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Melanie Griffith → Body Double. Body Double was the first time a real director saw something more in Griffith.
    “That's the 1st time, like a real director is like, no, no, there's something more here.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:23:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Melanie Griffith → Julia Roberts. Roberts would not have been as comfortable getting dressed on screen.
    “I don't know if a lot of, like, Julia Roberts, I don't think would have been, oh, I'm just going to get dressed in 3 different scenes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:23:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Melanie Griffith → Meryl Streep. Griffith plays the lead by receding, not raising her voice, like Streep in Prada.
    “And they're, and they recede a little and they don't always raise the voice, Meryl Streep and Deborah, where's Prada being the other one?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Melanie Griffith → Dakota Johnson. Craig names Dakota Johnson, Griffith's daughter, as the modern equivalent, with shared smile and hair.
    “I mean, Dakota Johnson?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:50:51 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (same role): Shelley Winters → Melanie Griffith. In the Lyne film Melanie Griffith plays the Winters part quietly, aware the Winters performance is infamous.
    “She's just like, well, I know the Shelley Winters performance is infamous.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:07:35 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Melanie Griffith → Jodie Foster. Comparing the two Best Actress performances, Griffith's might be the harder one.
    “I actually think this one might be harder in some ways.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:15:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Melanie Griffith → Michelle Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer was too beautiful already; you could not watch her bloom.
    “You couldn't, you couldn't like watch her bloom into something because she's pre-bloomed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:16:15 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Melanie Griffith: Production shut down for a day because she was out until 4:30 and flying; Nichols made her pay for the shoot day.
    “He made her pay for the whole day shoot.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:18:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Melanie Griffith: Griffith's red eyes and rough nights show in HD; spotting which scenes followed a late night is a game you can win.
    “there's a couple scenes where she's just got like completely red eyes for no reason.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:19:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Melanie Griffith: Her ex Don Johnson, Miami Vice, ponytail year: she got back with him after rehab, three weeks after filming.
    “So she went in rehab 3 weeks after filming and then, um, got back together with Don Johnson, my guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:21:00 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Melanie Griffith: The topless vacuuming scene was apparently Griffith's own idea; Nichols said sounds great.
    “apparently it was Melanie Griffith's idea.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:26:30 · Joanna Robinson (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Melanie Griffith: She told a 2017 interview she repeatedly made passes at Alec Baldwin, who said no thanks.
    “repeatedly made passes at Alec Baldwin and he said, no thanks”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:35:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)